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Net-Works is the winner of the Responsible Business Award 2014

On Monday, 29th September 2014, nearly 200 of the world’s leading responsible business experts gathered at Ethical Corporation’s Fifth Annual Responsible Business Awards ceremony in London’s Mayfair.

About 400 entries were received this year, covering a range of sectors and industries from all over the world, in itself reiterating the fact that responsible business is steadily becoming mainstream. The judges were looking for entries that clearly demonstrated how the company had incorporated responsible business and sustainability thinking into various areas of business, linking it back to commercial objectives.

Opening up the Awards Ceremony, chairman of this year’s judging committee Professor David Grayson said that the standard from this year’s entrants had been very high, and that it’s great to see and read about all the great sustainable work that’s being done around the world. More information on the judges’ feedback is available here.

BEST BUSINESS/ NGO PARTNERSHIP

Nominees for this category:

Marks and Spencer and Good World Solutions – Leveraging mobile technology for real-time supply chain transparency

Shell and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

Woolworths and WWF-SA partnerships: Sustainable business initiative

Barclays and Care and Plan UK – Banking on Change

Interface and Zoological Society of London – Net-Works: delivering social, economic and environmental benefits to the Philippines

Turk Telekom (TT) and Bogazici University GETEM and Assistive Technology and Education Laboratory – Books on the phone

SM Prime Holdings – Sensory Friendly Movies

The judges were looking to the same criteria as in B2B Partnership. The only difference here was that the partnership should have taken place between a company and other entities (i.e. NGOs, governmental body, charity or other).

Having perhaps, the longest list of nominees, this category was one of the hardest to choose from. Nevertheless, judges selected a partnership between Barclays, Care and Plan UK with their project Banking on Change as highly commended, stating: